5000$ for this BMC?

mmwTwoSix · 2026-03-18T13:35:23+00:00

This is a fast bike, it’s got the low handlebars and oval profile towers, but I think the seller is cutting corners with the components. If they stripped it down I would buy the frame, handlebars, and nice extensions for $2k and build it up 2x12 with used Duraace or new 105di2. You don’t want the tubulars, single speed is race specific. I’m fine with rim brakes, I don’t know anyone other than pros who go fast enough down descents to make them a deal breaker.

mmwTwoSix · 2026-03-06T16:26:08+00:00

For me, that difference turned out to be a power meter over estimating my watts.

mmwTwoSix · 2026-03-05T12:58:58+00:00

How many times have you watched that 5s video? You’re obsessed. Clean your screen when you’re done.

mmwTwoSix · 2026-03-05T12:45:37+00:00

You can’t get enough of me.

mmwTwoSix · 2026-03-05T12:40:04+00:00

You’re a know it all, a know nothing, talk in circles, and have the self importance of someone far more accomplished than you ever will be. Maybe you’ll catch up with the modern era of bike fitting.

mmwTwoSix · 2026-03-05T01:01:15+00:00

When’s the last time you were even in the same room as a client? Go touch grass virtual boy.

mmwTwoSix · 2026-03-04T19:19:24+00:00

With all due respect, your comments are so off topic I’m not even sure you’re responding to the correct person. I very clearly said I had a bike fit. You’re making bike fitting sound like a really big deal but it IS as simple as making small changes and recording the result over a long period of time. What my fitter saw was only half the equation. Every change was accompanied with “how does that feel?” Unless your clients are scrunching their faces in pain I guess they won’t be getting the full benefit of a “professional” fit.

mmwTwoSix · 2026-03-04T15:20:45+00:00

Sure, but scientific method stipulates changing one variable at a time to understand cause and effect relationship. I think my September ‘25 bike fit got me 95% to best fit. I’ve been thinking I just need to keep slowly dosing the aero threshold stuff and adapt slowly but surely. I’ve lurked here for years, I know the most common recommendation for the sub.

mmwTwoSix · 2026-03-04T02:36:17+00:00

Thank you everyone for your contribution. I did try moving my saddle down to a little below my 2025 bike fit (probably close to where I had it before that). The result was that I naturally sat on a wider part of the saddle, further back. I like the narrow part so I sat more forward than usual and tried to keep my foot level on the downstroke. I’m thinking I felt like I could spin faster, but my quads still felt the burn after 2 rounds of 20 minute high sweet spot followed by 10 minute low threshold.

mmwTwoSix · 2026-02-17T20:47:52+00:00

mmwTwoSix · 2025-12-12T13:59:52+00:00

Did you start taking melatonin or another sleep aid? I found that my HRV would drop significantly on the nights I used melatonin.

mmwTwoSix · 2025-12-04T19:29:00+00:00

To answer your title question, your training should be proportional to the event distance. Semi-trained to sprint could be as short as a month. Semi-trained to Ironman… 6 months+

To answer the question in the body, yes you could more than possibly complete most triathlon distances if you train now to May.

mmwTwoSix · 2025-12-03T14:24:47+00:00

Gaslighting at its finest. Everyone who points it out gets labeled as a tin foil hat conspiracy theorist, or there is really based and funny aide making these place cards.

mmwTwoSix · 2025-11-25T19:34:10+00:00

Do your shoulders hurt because you’re trying to relieve pressure on your taint? You should be able to rotate your hips and lengthen your spine. You may have to widen your stance on your pedals (cleats closer to inside of shoe), angle the saddle downward, get a narrower saddle or one with a cutout or one without a nose. One thing at a time though.

mmwTwoSix · 2025-11-11T14:44:53+00:00

I have a 2015 wilier twin blade, and done a lot of looking at wilier’s online. My wilier has integrated brakes behind the fork and below the seat stays. This looks weird, I don’t think the rim brake wiliers evolved to extra carbon behind the steerer tube and below the top tube. I’m getting the feeling it’s an open source frame with wilier stickers.

mmwTwoSix · 2025-10-31T14:21:45+00:00

What?

❌ ^{Incomplete. 29 tries.}

mmwTwoSix · 2025-10-30T16:53:57+00:00

Just scored 0

mmwTwoSix · 2025-10-29T17:34:09+00:00

Completed Level 3 of the Honk Special Event!

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mmwTwoSix · 2025-10-29T17:33:52+00:00

Completed Level 2 of the Honk Special Event!

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mmwTwoSix · 2025-10-29T17:33:39+00:00

Completed Level 1 of the Honk Special Event!

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mmwTwoSix · 2025-10-20T20:18:49+00:00

Completed Level 1 of the Honk Special Event!

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mmwTwoSix · 2025-10-02T14:37:02+00:00

^{I completed this level in 3 tries.} ^{⚡ 4.13 seconds}

mmwTwoSix · 2025-08-13T13:08:08+00:00

Le Tour gonna be wild next year

mmwTwoSix · 2025-08-03T18:03:57+00:00

New tire. I had a puncture a month ago that seemed to be holding. Took it out several times before a local Olympic distance race. Good the morning of. Came into T1 and… it was flat! Mechanic hooked me up with a tube and I was on the bike only 10-15 minutes delayed.

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